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Book Review of Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Portrait of an Unknown Woman
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Helpful Score: 4


Meg, the adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, narrates the story of a famous Holbein paiinting of the More family. This is a wonderfully written historical novel about the More family, set in the religously tumultous 16th century England at the beginning of the Portestant Reformation. I enjoyed the beautifully descriptive language of the author, though her sentences at times were very long with many commas! The story is a blend of historical fact and imagination, mystery, passion, love and cruelty.